I'm looking at getting an Ultra 10 as a plaything to install Gentoo on.

I'm used to IA32 and know how much memory I need for what I do there.
How much memory does an Ultra 10 need so it doesn't go into swapping while its running mundane things and compiling in the background ?_________________Regards,

NeddySeagoon

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those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

I'm looking at getting an Ultra 10 as a plaything to install Gentoo on.

I'm used to IA32 and know how much memory I need for what I do there.
How much memory does an Ultra 10 need so it doesn't go into swapping while its running mundane things and compiling in the background ?

Note there are 2 kinds of RAM available. Ordinary 60ns and rare 50ns. Try to get non sun 60ns. They should be cheaper.

I strongly advice you to get extra hd controller. Onboard IDE on U5/U10 (use same main board) are broken. They run in PIO16 mode only (in practice 12MB/s only). Better hd controllers will seriously boost your system. Try also to get 400/440 Mhz processor (L2=2MB)_________________IA32 - Slackware
SPARC64 - Gentoo